The Endless Quest - O Friend intimate as Thou art

O Friend, intimate as Thou art, my constant companion, I can neither give Thee a name nor paint Thy outline Nor confine Thee in any manifestation. Ages I have spent looking for Thee, while Thou wert all around, Encircling me with Thy Love, pressing me from above, Upholding me from below, and forcing Thy way from within outwards, Like the joy of a blossoming rosebud which cannot be contained anymore O Spirit eternal, a million universes rise and dance and desappear Without affecting the solitary Majesty of Thy timeless splendor. Thy existence is more real and concrete to my perception Than my own being.

Heartbeat of my heartbeat, life of my life, body of my body, Yet a greater stranger than Thee, I shall never meet. Each time I try to pull Thee in, O Denizen of the deep, Thou remainest as ever unseen, tantalising, beckoning the soul Each new probe, each new dive into the hidden reaches of the Infinite Brings surprise conquest, a death and rebirth into a greater Adventure. We proceed from one aim to a greater apocalypse, from faint to a deeper hue, From a poor joy to a fuller bliss in an endless ascending series.

Constantly we wake up in a new dawn, a new revelation, Only to find that the glorious Godhead of the day before Was but the travesty of the imperishable, invisible Sun. There is always an unexplored panorama beyond the last transformation. The highest summit conquered reveals a yet undiscovered peak.

Thou hast revealed to my soul Thy seamless conscious immensities, Dizzy heights packed with condensed Light, Depths which refuse to give up their wealth, Dangerous rushing seas where the being unaware Slips into an abyss of ecstasy. The visible and the subtle have become One There are no walls, no closed cells, no fortress of hatred and violence, Nothing that can offer resistance to the constant shower of Thy Grace. The marvelous Guest in each being cleaves forward through time and fate. He will arrive at the banquet when the hour shines.